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This post was written by John Scalzi's daughter Athena, and she is absolutely right. I just hope that it's way less than "twenty, fifty, even a hundred years in the future" that we all look back at these kooks and "regard them with the same embarrassment and disdain we feel for segregationists when we look back at the 1960s, or the way we feel about flat Earthers." I hope most will feel that way within just the next two or three years at the most. I get what she's saying though. Posterity, and all that. Unless things go incredibly pear-shaped between now and then, though, I think it's probably safe to take it as a given that future generations are going to look back on the 2016-2020 era with high amounts of "WTAF?"
(EDIT) Also, this will be the first time I've ever replied to a post on whatever.scalzi.com (which refers back to this post of my own, though I didn't directly link to that in my comment there). On the one hand, I hope it won't be the last. On the other hand, I hope I won't regret doing even that much. (/EDIT)
(EDIT 2) And here is my second ever comment on whatever dot scalzi dot com, which is in reply to a guy who'd already gotten the Mallet between when I started my reply to him and when I posted it. (Also, as an aside, even though that guy was spewing some dumbfuckery about Biden and Kamala Harris and how they were gonna "turk ur gurns" or whatever, and even though I was sorely tempted to use the same sort of fiery asshole language there as I do here, I decided not to. I can be as big of a fiery, ranty asshole here in my own blog as I want to be, but I'm not going to go to someone else's house and be a fiery, ranty asshole there.) (/EDIT 2)
(EDIT) Also, this will be the first time I've ever replied to a post on whatever.scalzi.com (which refers back to this post of my own, though I didn't directly link to that in my comment there). On the one hand, I hope it won't be the last. On the other hand, I hope I won't regret doing even that much. (/EDIT)
(EDIT 2) And here is my second ever comment on whatever dot scalzi dot com, which is in reply to a guy who'd already gotten the Mallet between when I started my reply to him and when I posted it. (Also, as an aside, even though that guy was spewing some dumbfuckery about Biden and Kamala Harris and how they were gonna "turk ur gurns" or whatever, and even though I was sorely tempted to use the same sort of fiery asshole language there as I do here, I decided not to. I can be as big of a fiery, ranty asshole here in my own blog as I want to be, but I'm not going to go to someone else's house and be a fiery, ranty asshole there.) (/EDIT 2)
